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the aeroplanes siträdsertidárás

Ventanarcial are, in fact, used for

military purposes.

even

Moreover, it is

not get the case that all

military aeroplanes are excluded from

China under the China Arms Embargo

Agreement, since as a result of the

representations made by the French

Government in 1925, aeroplanes of French

origin, at been detained in transit

for China whether orinatreenexpanded

by certificaatas fit serviconmeveieu

In this connection, I am

to invite reference to Foreign Office

letter No.F2224/1/10 of the 19th June,1925,

and to the C.O. reply of the 29th. June 1925.

3.

It is further understood that

Whether commiscial or

in characts,

heilitary

have not since that date

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in response to Sir M. Lampson's representa-

tions, sanction was recently given for

a supply of Vickers aeroplanes for Chang

Tso-Lin. These aeroplanes appear to

have been described as 'commercial' in

order that there might be no conflict

with the terms of the China Arms Embargo

Agreement; but there seems to have been

no

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